Armor.



A. M. SCHNEIDER.

ARMOR.

APPLICATION FILED DBO.12, 1910.

Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2

Application filed December 12 1910. Serial No. 593,910.

or arnioradapted to be wornby policemen,

and. others to protect the vital parts of the body;t'ro1n bullet andknife wound.

The object of iny invention is to provide a device of the classmentioned Which shall be of light weight, suihciently flexible to beworn with comfort and which shall effectually prevent the wearer fromreceiving wounds to the parts of the body protected thereby. p

Qther objects will appear hereinafter.

In carrying out my invention I form. the armor of a plurality of smallmetal plates suitably connected. The plates are as semhled preferably wth abutting edges and the are our en a, order to prevent a knife frombeing inserted between them. To facilitate. manufacturing and assemblingthe parts of the device they are preferably made of uniform shape andsize.

lily invention further consists in various details of construct-ion andarrangements of parts all as will be fullydescribed hereinafter andparticularly pointed out in the claim. I

My invention will be more readilyunder-- s ood by reference to theaccompanyingd ii a part'of this specificarenting a and ilt. l 1

1 s treat, V581? ot the upper poror a nea s weaul pparel illustratingLl; the coat, Fig. 2 of a portion of the section on the line an.elevation of a portion of anarmor illustrating a modified form of thesame, Fig. is 'a similar view of a further modification, and Fig. 6 is asimilar view of a still further modification.

An armor embodying my invention mayv be of any size or form to protectas much of the body as desired, but my invention relates particularly tothe plates of which the armor is formed and the mannerot connecting thesame. I

Referring now-to the drawings 1 indicates the plates which are ofsimilar shape and size and assembled edge wise. By assembling the platesedge wise, that is with abut ting edges, the device may he made muchlighter in weight than when made with overlapping edges.

The abutting edges of the plate arecurved as at 2 and 3 which-makes itmore dittieult for a knife to penetrate betweenthe plates than when theedges are straight. I prefer to form the platesot similar size and shapeand to this end they are preferably of general quadrilateral formarranged on the diagonal, with the two upper edges concave and the twolower edges convex. Byconstructing the device of similar quadrilateralplates with the lines of abntnientot the edges intersecting, the comersottonr plates are in juxtaposition at eachintersection. As shown inFigs. 2 and the diagonally opposite corners are connected by links 4:and 5 which pass through smallperforations 6 formed in the corners ofthe plates to receive them. The crossed links t and 5 also prevent theinsertion of a, weapon at these points where the .lines of divisionbetween the plates intersect.

In Figs. i, 5 and 6, I have illustrated modified means for connectingthe plates, said means being :torzned integrally with. the respectiveplates 1. The ooncavcedgcs 3 of each plate form a narrow npwaw jeetingtongue '3 from which p ally tongues 8 which are ext nt 1 apertures 6 inthe lateralv corners or plates and then bent down as at 8".

illustrated in Fig. 5 the upper corner of plates may be formed withsmall projections 9 which extend under the lower corner of the platevabove thereby preventing depression of the lower corner out the plate.In Fig. 6 I have illustrated the projection each plate fitting into theconcave edges of the next adjacent plates, substantiallv as described.

In testimony whereof I have signc 5 my 1.5 name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ANNA MARGARETHA. SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

VINNIE GoonWIN, \V. NORRIS BUCKLIN, Jr.

a tongue 9 which is extended through an aperture 6 in the lower cornerof the plate above and then bent downwardly as at 9.

Having described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

An armor formed of a plurality of metal plates assembled edge wise, eachof said i plates being quadrilateral and two of the edges beingconcavcly curved and the other two convexly curved, the convex edges of

